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Eliza Hull Maury Withers Letters

 Collection
Identifier: M856

Scope and Contents

Collection contains extracts from personal letters of Mrs. Withers recount the daily events of her life in various mining communities in Colorado.

Dates

  • 1878-1881

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Copyright

All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from material in the collection should be discussed with the appropriate librarian or archivist. Permission for publication may be given on behalf of the Denver Public Library as the owner of the physical item. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the customer. The Library does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or publication rights of the manuscript held by the writer, heirs, donors, or executors. Reproduction restrictions are decided on a case-by-case basis.

Biographical / Historical

Eliza Hull Maury Withers was a pioneer who came to Colorado from Richmond, Va. 1870s. Wife of Thomas Withers, a mining engineer and surveyor; daughter of Matthew Fontaine Maury, "Pathfinder of the Seas."

Extent

1 envelope (41 leaves)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, Katherine W. Toll, 1938.

General

Typed transcript (1938) by Katherine W. Toll. Originals were in possession of Mrs. Littleton Fitzgerald, Richmond, Va.

Description rules
Anglo American Cataloguing Rules
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Denver Public Library, Western History and Genealogy Repository

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